Beyond Showerheads and Sprinklers: Focusing on Key Issues

Beyond Showerheads and Sprinklers: Focusing on Key Issues
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Beyond Showerheads and Sprinklers: Focusing on Key Issues
MPC/file

Beyond Showerheads and Sprinklers: Focusing on Key Issues

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Despite progress made by the regional pilot groups, Illinois still has more questions than answers when it comes to its water future. To help guide the development of a state plan for effective regional water management, water experts and professionals from Illinois and across the Great Lakes came together at “Beyond Showerheads and Sprinklers: Water Governance Solutions for Illinois,” an all-day conference held here in Chicago.

Sponsored by Openlands, Metropolitan Planning Council, and the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, the conference was designed for state and local officials, agricultural and industrial water users, planners, utility representatives, conservation specialists, wastewater and stormwater management professionals, and other stakeholders.  

The second panel discussion of the morning included the following presentations: Mary Ann Dickinson, Executive Director of the Alliance for Water Efficiency, presented “Effective Conservation Strategies: Suppliers, Users, and Land Development Policy”; Otto Doering, Professor with the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, presented “Agriculture and Biofuels: Advancing Water Management and Agricultural Sustainability in Illinois”; and Kent Lokkesmoe, Director in the Division of Waters of Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources, presented “Water Resource Governance: Metropolitan and Rural Area Experience in Minnesota”.

Also recorded as part of this conference:
Freshwater Challenges - Global Problems, Local Solutions
Where We Are Now - Moving Forward with the Illinois Water Supply Planning Initiative
Focusing on Key Issues
The Great Lakes - Protecting and Managing
Is the State of Illinois Prepared for Water Shortages?

Recorded Friday, May 16, 2008 at Union League Club of Chicago.